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Which of the following best describes what would happen if you dropped a small steel ball while standing somewhere in North America?

The small steel ball would fall to the ground and then:

A. Roll towards the equator
B. Roll towards the north
C. Roll towards the nearest ocean
D. Roll towards the lowest elevation
E. Roll towards the nearest magnet


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Question Identifier: GCI_2011_011
Designed for: Non-Science Majors
Primary Author(s): S. Anderson
Contributing Author(s):
Misconception's Reference: Original GCI (https://www.msu.edu/~libarkin/GCI_PUBLICATIONS.html)
Notes: (none)